# umbilical cord
## English
### Noun

umbilical cord (plural umbilical cords)
* (anatomy) The flexible structure connecting a foetus with the placenta; it transports nourishment to the foetus and removes waste.
* (aerospace) The line that supplies an astronaut with oxygen and communications when outside a spacecraft.
* (aerospace) Any of the various lines connecting a rocket to its launch pad before liftoff.
* (figurative, including) An overdependence on, or overattachment to, one's parents or guardians.
** 2024 February 7, Andrew McNaughton, “HS2: a truncated route cuts off city lifelines”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 47:Remember the eastern leg of HS2 being lopped back to the East Midlands? To this Yorkshireman, this was a tragedy. It removed the umbilical cord designed to connect and bind together the modern advanced manufacturing corridor of England (West Midlands-East Midlands-the reborn Sheffield-Leeds-Teesside-Tyneside), helping it to be capable of competing internationally through the synergy of skills and skilled people.

#### Synonyms

* (anatomical structure): navel-string/navel string

#### Derived terms

* cut the umbilical cord
* umbilical cord cutting

#### Translations

Akan: egyaade
Arabic: حَبْل سُرِّيّ m (ḥabl surriyy)
Armenian: պորտալար (hy) (portalar)
Asturian: llibradura f
Azerbaijani: göbək ciyəsi, göbəkbağı
Bashkir: кендек бауы (kendek bawı), кендек (kendek)
Belarusian: пупаві́на f (pupavína)
Breton: funig ar begel m, kordenn ar begel m
Bulgarian: пъ́пна връв f (pǎ́pna vrǎv)
Burmese: ချက်ကြိုး (my) (hkyakkrui:)
Catalan: cordó umbilical m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 臍帶 / 脐带 (ci$^4$ daai$^{3-2}$)
Hakka: 臍帶 / 脐带 (chhì-tai)
Hokkien: 臍帶 / 脐带 (châi-tòa)
Mandarin: 臍帶 / 脐带 (zh) (qídaì)
Classical Nahuatl: xīcmecayōtl
Czech: pupeční šňůra f
Danish: navlestreng (da) c
Dutch: navelstreng (nl) m, navelsnoer f
Egyptian: (ẖpꜣ), (npꜣw)
Erzya: почопикс (počopiks)
Estonian: nabanöör
Finnish: napanuora (fi)
French: cordon ombilical (fr) m
Galician: cordón umbilical (gl) m, cadillo m
Georgian: ჭიპლარი (č̣iṗlari)
German: Nabelschnur (de) f
Greek: ομφάλιος λωρός m (omfálios lorós)
Hebrew: חֶבֶל הַטַבּוּר m
Hindi: नाभिरज्जु m (nābhirajju)
Hungarian: köldökzsinór (hu)
Ido: umbilikala kordono
Indonesian: tali pusat (id)
Ingrian: napanoora
Irish: srincne f, caolán imleacáin m, caol imleacáin m, sreang imleacáin f
Italian: cordone ombelicale m
Japanese: 臍帯 (ja) (さいたい, saitai), 臍の緒 (ja) (へそのお, heso no o)
Kabuverdianu: unbigu
Kannada: ಹೊಕ್ಕುಳಬಳ್ಳಿ (hokkuḷabaḷḷi)
Kashmiri: نان (nān)
Kazakh: кіндікбау (kındıkbau)
Khmer: ទងផ្ចិត (km) (tɔɔng phcət)
Korean: 탯줄 (taetjul), 제대(臍帶) (ko) (jedae) (less common)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: navkebendik m
Kyrgyz: киндик (ky) (kindik)
Lao: ສາຍບື (lo) (sāi bư̄), ສາຍສະບື (sāi sa bư̄)
Latin: nervus umbilicaris m
Latvian: nabassaite f
Lithuanian: virkštelė f
Macedonian: папочна врвца f (papočna vrvca)
Malayalam: പൊക്കിൾക്കൊടി (pokkiḷkkoṭi)
Maori: tāngaengae, iho, uho, rauru (the end connecting to the placenta), pito (the end connecting to the foetus), kaha (mi)
Marathi: नाळ f (nāḷ)
Norwegian: navlestreng m
Persian: بند ناف (fa) (band-e nâf)
Polish: pępowina (pl) f
Portuguese: cordão umbilical (pt) m
Punjabi: ਨਾੜੂ m (nāṛū)
Russian: пупови́на (ru) f (pupovína)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пупчана врпца f
Roman: pupčana vrpca (sh) f
Slovak: pupočná šnúra f
Slovene: popkovnica (sl) f, popkovina (sl) f
Southern Altai: киндик (kindik)
Spanish: cuerda umbilical f
Swahili: kitovu (sw)
Swedish: navelsträng (sv) c
Tagalog: talimpusod
Tajik: наи ноф (na-yi nof)
Tamil: தொப்புள்கொடி (toppuḷkoṭi)
Telugu: బొడ్డు తాడు (boḍḍu tāḍu)
Thai: สายสะดือ (sǎai-sà-dʉʉ)
Tooro: orulera class 11
Turkish: göbek bağı (tr)
Ukrainian: пупови́на f (pupovýna)
Uzbek: kindik ichakchasi
Vietnamese: cuống nhau, dây rốn, cuống rốn
Welsh: llinyn bogail m
Yoruba: ìwọ́ :